POLITICS

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta will be presenting the 2019 Budget Statement in Parliament today, Thursday November, 15, 2019. Ahead of the presentation, GN Research is advising the government to focus more on job creation which will lead to poverty reduction. “About 10,000 direct jobs were lost since 2017. Some of the sectors affected include, financial, media, hospitality, telecommunication and mining ...

Former president John Mahama has accused his successor of mismanaging the economy which has led to untold hardships. According to Mahama, every sector of the economy has been poorly managed which has adversely affected teachers, drivers, traders, farmers and public sector workers, among others. Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Agona in the Afigya Sekyere East constituency ...

Ahead of the 2019 fiscal policy presentation, the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) is calling on the government to make provision for products of the Free Senior High School policy who will be entering the university in 2020. UTAG expressed concern about the number of students who will be coming out of the free SHS programme to the public ...

Industrialists, investors and Ghanaians alike await in anticipation as Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta reads the budget statement and financial policies for the third year in office of the Akufo-Addo administration. Key among what Ghanaians expect to hear are tariff reductions in electricity and water as well as price cuts in fuel considering assurances earlier averred by President Akufo-Addo to ...

The state’s second prosecution witness in the GHS271 Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) trial, Dr Alfred Arthur, was on Wednesday, 14 November 2018, accused by Mr Sam Cudjoe, the lawyer for former COCOBOD CEO Dr Stephen Opuni, of once forging a scientific report on ‘Cocoa Nti’ fertiliser, Class91.3FM’s court correspondent Joshua Quodjo-Mensah reported. Continuing his cross-examination, Mr Cudjoe told the court ...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor is set to benefit tremendously from the 2019 budgetary allocations that will be announced by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta. Citi News is in possession of a letter from the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, in which he expressed appreciation to the finance minister for an apparent pledge for a budgetary allocation in the ...

The Member of Parliament for Nadowli Kaleo and presidential aspirant for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin has blamed the party’s poor showing in the last election on the quality of its presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama. The former president, Mr. Bagbin explains was not thoroughly prepared for the Presidential position making him lack some critical ingredients ...

Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Bagbin has said he will rebrand the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to make it more attractive and marketable to defeat the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 polls if elected as the flag bearer of the biggest opposition party. According to him, the rebranding plans he has will ensure that the ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama missed the point when he said he would restructure all small-scale mining activities in the country should he win the next general elections, Mr Charles Bissiw, Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on Illegal Mining, has said. According to Mr Bissiw, the current administration has already started implementing a comprehensive roadmap that is shaping and ...

A member of the communication and legal teams of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, is of the opinion that nothing seems to be working in Ghana under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. “The situation is hopeless,” he stressed. The politician-cum-lawyer was speaking on TV3’s New Day on Wednesday in the wake of the commendation of the current government ...